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Lisa Wenger
1858–1941
A Swiss painter and children's author, she became one of the country's best-known and most widely read writers in the 1930s. Her work joined an artist's eye for images with stories made for young readers.
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Amoralische Fabeln
by Lisa Wenger
About the author
Born in Bern in 1858 as Lisa Ruutz, she grew into a creative life that crossed both writing and painting. Reliable biographical sources describe her as a Swiss painter and writer of children's books, and note that she later died in Carona in 1941.
She was especially known for children's literature, and by the 1930s she was counted among the best-known and most widely read authors in Switzerland. That popularity suggests how strongly her stories connected with families of her time.
Her dual career as an artist and author helps explain the appeal of her books: they came from someone shaped by both visual art and storytelling. Even in a brief sketch of her life, she stands out as a writer who brought imagination, clarity, and a painter's sensibility to literature for young readers.